Best farmers unveiled today

Kabushenga talking about Vision Group's Best Farmers awards. The Best Farmers will be unveiled today. Photo by Kennedy Oryema

The Best Farmers' awards hasbecome one of those honours the public recognises, Vision Group's chief executive officer, Robert Kabushenga, has said.

According to Kabushenga, lately, the project is one of the issues that everyone now wants to be part of and has improved farming practices.

"Everybody now says I am working on my farm, so that I can also participate in the competition. In terms of impact in the society, this competition has been quite good because the farmers who have featured have shown many people in the public what they are capable of doing on a farm and have achieved good result.

"I am really proud of the people who participate and make this competition worthwhile," he said, yesterday.

Kabushenga was talking to journalists about the Best Farmers Awards, scheduled for today at Vision Group headquarters in Industrial Area, Kampala.

After traversing the whole country and inspecting private farms for nine months from February to November, the judges will today announce the 10 winners of the competition.

The ceremony will be presided over by the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga.

During the search for the Best Farmer, over 1,200 nominations were sent to different Vision Group platforms and 350 were profiled on Vision Group's TVs, radios and newspapers.

The 10 winners will share sh150m and also have a chance to visit the Netherlands for a study farming tour.

The competition is sponsored by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Uganda, dfcu Bank, KLM Airlines and Vision Group.

To ensure that the public do not miss out on the profiled stories of Best Farmers in the last two years, Kabushenga also unveiled the latest edition of Harvest Money book, which will be out today.

"The 3rd edition of Harvest Money book will be on sale soon.

The timing is perfect. It will help you prepare for the next planting season. It has good stories of the people we have profiled so that you can learn from them and be able to do great things for yourself," he said.